1. Create an account

Use your email address and a password to get started. If you have a Facebook account, you can simply use that login to enter VirtualCollegeFairs.com by clicking any of the blue Facebook buttons.

2. Add a simple profile

When you find a college you'd like to learn more about, this is the information you provide them. No more hand-written contact cards, just the click of a button! Remember, you control who has access to this information.

3. Visit virtual college booths

Explore and learn about colleges and Universities from around the country.

• Chat with admissions officers
• See campus pictures
• Watch videos
• Read student blogs, and more!

4. Participate in the community

• Post your own pictures you've taken while visiting campuses
• Review campus visits you've experienced
• Ask questions to our admissions experts
• Read articles with great tips and advice, and much more!

1. Connect with your friends and other students searching for colleges just like you

Students can post their "college search status", which is a short description of what they are doing right now in the college search process. You can find out what others, in similar circumstances, are doing and make sure you're on the right track.

2. Review college campuses you've visited

Almost everyone has visited a few college campuses, but not everyone can travel to all the schools they'd like. Help out! After you've visited a campus, fill out a quick review of your experience and post any pictures you took that day.

3. Ask questions to the community

Do you have a specific question but don't know who to ask? Post the question to our Q&A boards and get answers back from admissions experts. Then, pick the best answer so that others can find it quickly and easily. Question topics range from admissions essays to financial aid.

4. Read recommended articles

Students can check off tasks as they move through the admissions process. VirtualCollegeFairs will recommend helpful articles based on what you're working on right now. College admissions officers, high school guidance counselors, and other experts in the admissions field have contributed their best tips and advice.

No one without your permission

When you visit a college booth and click the "Submit my information" button, you are granting that college access to your contact info. If you put a school into your "Top 5", you may receive messages in your VCF box with information about that school, but it does not give them any of your personal contact data.

Be careful of other college websites

Other college websites take your personal information and sell it in lists to hundreds of colleges and Universities. Ever wonder why you receive so much junk mail from schools you've never heard of? Yeah...that's why.